Phonetics

Exercises

Vowels of American English

Click and hear examples of the main vowel sounds used in American English.

Michael Barlow's phonetics exercises

Hypercard stacks you can download for practice with phonetic transcription, and for examples of American and British vowels.

Consonants of American English

Click and hear examples of the consonants of American English.

Phonetic Fonts

International Phonetic Association

Home page for the International Phonetic Association, the developers of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Multiple sources for IPA fonts, for both Mac and Windows.

Yamada IPA Fonts

Download IPA fonts from Yamada Language Center at U Oregon. Mostly for Mac but some for Windows.

SIL Encore IPA Fonts

Free downloadable fonts from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, for both Mac and Windows.

Links

The Sounds of Speech

by Morris Halle (MIT). Identifying sounds, speaking, words in memory.

Places of Articulation

Explains all the major places of articulation for consonants.

Symbols for American English Vowel Sounds

Given in IPA, Sun, IPA-ASCII, Rsynth, and SAMPA formats

Studying Phonetics on the Net

Phones and phonemes of English: includes examples of American and British vowels and consonants. Need help with phoentic transcription? This site has a handy phonetic transcriber. Also includes speech waveform analysis, text-to-speech (TTS) synthesizer.

Center for Spoken Language Understanding (U of Oregon)

Info and links about speech and language technologies.

Sine Wave Replication

A really cool demo on speech perception, brought to you by the Haskins Laboratories.

Georgetown: Phonetics and Phonology Resources

Georgetown University's list of phonetics and phonology links, some of which also appear here.

Speech on the Web

Links to helpful links relating to speech and phonetics.

A Course in Phonetics: Vowels and Consonants

Web supplement to Ladefoged's A Course in Phonetics, 4th ed.

Online Phonetics Course

from University of Lausanne in Switzerland, translated from French

What is "The Science and Technology of Speech and Hearing"?

Describes the relationship between Linguistics, Phonetics, Audiology and Speech Therapy.

Anatomy of the Vocal Tract

Shows you, what else, the anatomy of the vocal tract.

Speech Internet Dictionary

The aim of SID is to provide concise definitions of technical terms used in phonetics, phonology, speech and hearing science and allied disciplines. Description from the site.

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